How many churches are in your town?

If I only count the christian churches, 3. If I count all of them, around 7 official ones and around 13 "private" worshiping buildings. The population of my town is around 15.000, so there's not a lot of churches. The only problem is, most of the gold in the town is on and in those churches. I don't get Romanian priests.

 

A minimum of 50 Christian churches (and a lot more Christian centres which perform some Churchly services), plus a dozen or so mosques/Islamic centres, several Synagogues/Jewish centres, and a few more religious institutions.

For a city of almost 400,000, we haven't got that many churches, and only one (Catholic) cathedral.

 

I live in a village and theres one.

 

The famous American author, Mark Twain, wanted to sell his books in Canada. At the time (1881) there was this law that stated that any author who wanted to sell books here had to live here for a minimum of 6 months (strange, I know). So he chose Montreal, and was treated like royalty.

He had this to say about my city:

Nowadays, church attendance in this city has never been lower...many of these buildings are being converted to condos...

 

I don't see the point in having so many churches.

 

I live in one of the largest cities in the Southeastern U.S., so I'd have to say 3-4 within a mile radius. It's a huge number. Now in terms of attendance, that's another story.

 

Probably about 50 and one cowboy church in my town of 20,000

My friend has a store. Two churches coexist in his commercial center, and one exist directly behind him.

 

Apparently, as of 2006, my town had 54 churches. And the town only has 25,000 people. I knew there were a lot of churches, but this is ridiculous.

 

That's entirely normal for rural America. In the Eastern Montana town I was once stuck in, population slightly less than 5000 - well, I believe it was somewhere in the mid thirties.

In this Western Montana town, there's probably about the same number spread out over 50,000ish people. Seattle area, who knows how many. I expect a similar ratio of churches to people though.

 

I live in a small town. I don't know the official count, but going off of memory from seeing churches I drive by...6? I know there's probably more.

 

You know, I've never counted, but it seems like a lot. I live very close to a Catholic Church, and even closer to an Islamic Mosque.

 

My city has a population under 80k last time I checked and we're one of those places for every bar there are two or three churches (to put that into perspective, let me be clear when I say that my city is the DRUNKEST CITY IN AMERICA. I'm not joking or exaggerating, look it up).

I don't know how many we have, but there's at least five churches that are within a very short walking distance from my old high school, under ten minutes to be honest and about three of them are all on the same street, at least within two blocks of one another.

 

Over 1,000. Not exaggerating.

 

According to Church Finder: Churches in Warner Robins, Georgia - ChurchFinder.com

There are 107! Wow! Never knew they were that many.... lol
According to another site as of 2012 there was a population of 70,000-ish people here.

If my math is right.... 70,000/107 = 654 approximately.

There is 1 church for every 654 people in town.

 

This is intriguing

Well I live in Atlanta, one and a half hours away, which is clearly much much larger than Warner Robins. However, I theorize that the amount of churches per square mile here is roughly the same as it is there. Now, if you were to ask about the combined amount of religious institutions, then one would find a lot more here. With every church that I see, there's bound to be a synagogue and a mosque next door. :lol:

 

113 churches in a city of 761,000 or thereabouts - not including the church buildings that are no longer churches (some are converted to nightclubs).

Nearest church to me is pretty old - built in the 1300s, but that isn't the oldest in the city.

There are 23 mosques and 7 synagogues + a few more Jewish centres.

 

60 active churches apparently, which makes roughly 100,000/60 = 1667 people per church. Not much of an idea about what sort of congregations they all have but my grandparent's church I occasionally go to is usually pretty dead.

Some of them are really beautiful, especially the ones in the town centre and especially the abbey.